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, @nitnhtetts atnt @fitte KASSON FRAZER, OF SYRCIISE, NEI-V YORK.

Letters Patent No. 69,087, dated September 2-1, 1867.

IMPRGVED SNAP-HOOK.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, KASSOX FRAZER, ofthe city of Syracuse, New York, have invented o new and improved Snap; and I do hereby declare that the following is n full, clear, und exact description of the construction of the sume, and the form thereof when complete, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making u pairt of this specification, in which- Figure l represents n, face view of the hook part. Figure 2 represents u side and sectional view thereof. Figure 3 represents u face View of the latch party Figure 4 :1 side and sectional View, and Figure 5 a buck View thereof'. Figure 6 represents'zt side view of the whole snap complete. The letters used represent the sume parts in the different figures where they appear. To enable others skilled in the nrt to make und use my invention, I will proceed to describe the construction of the snep, and its form when complete and retdy for use.

I make of mnllenbleiron or other metal :1 hook, with u, ring port, A, und a hook part, B, substantially in the form represented by figs. 1 and 2, and with :t bevelled foce, a, :tt the end ci' the hook, its seen in 2 und 6. I make n, latch, C, of the sume metal, substftntinllyin the forni seen in figs. 3,4, and 5, with a beveiledfece, v b, to fit the face a on the hook B, when the snap is closed, und with the smell hooks c e to tit and beer against the ring port of the hook, ns seen :it the points (1dr. I also mnke u steel spring, D, with one end thereofl inserted in the latch C, seen et e, in igsfil and 5, und with the other end finttened, and the body thereof medein the form of :t spring, so ns to beur upon the hook part :1t the peintf.

The spring is thus mufle to nnswcr the double purpose, first, of an ordinary spring, in opening und closing` the latch; second, in combination with 'the small hooks e e, the bevelleil faces a und and the bearings et e und f, holdingl the hook part and the luteh together, thus avoiding the necessity ofl drilling, riveting, or clinehing,

to secure and hold the latch te the hook.

Whitt I claim :ts my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Intent, is- 'Ihe constructing of a snap by a combination of the parts A, B, C, and D, or their equivalents, subsistir tially as and for the purpose described.

KASSOX F tAZEIL Witnesses:

N. B. SMITH, H. C. LnAvENwoRTH. 

